Jury
National
Jessica Arfuso
Associate Producer I France
After studying cinema at university, Jessica Arfuso began her career as a production assistant. Committed to promoting and sharing cinema, she worked for six years at the Contis International Film Festival (France) and created a multidisciplinary festival in Belle-île-en-Mer, while also leading initiatives in film education and programming. In 2021, she joined Punchline Cinéma, first as a coordinator and then as an associate producer notably on the short film Maitighar by Marc Gurung in 2023. Since then she produced nine short films alongside Lucas Tothe, among them are : Death of an actor by Ambroise Rateau, Boa by Alexandre Dostie, The run-child by Margo Brière Bordier, My brother, My brother by Abdelrahman Dnewar, and Mardochi by Lucas Gloppe. She remains involved in programming activities within a non-profit framework.
Geneviève Gosselin-G
Producer I Canada
Geneviève Gosselin-G. is a Montreal-based producer with a strong passion for art-house cinema, particularly works that are poetic and political. She founded her production company, Le Foyer Films, in 2019, after producing over a dozen short films since 2013. In 2023, she completed the Canada–France co-production of Pier-Philippe Chevigny’s debut feature Richelieu, which screened at festivals such as Tribeca, Karlovy Vary, and Palm Springs. She also recently completed Marianne Métivier’s debut feature Elsewhere at Night, developed through the Torino Feature Lab (2023) and the TIFF Filmmaker Lab (2021). The films she has produced have been showcased at some of the world’s leading film festivals and markets, including the Berlinale, TIFF, Tribeca, Busan, Karlovy Vary, Clermont-Ferrand, Namur, among others.
Brian Kazez
Filmmaker I Argentina
Brian Kazez is an Argentine filmmaker from Buenos Aires. A member of the award-winning directing collective Pantera — specializing in music videos, commercials, and short documentaries — he made his debut as writer-director with The Rise and Fall of Zara Zilverstein. The film premiered in official competition at the 39th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, winning Best Mercosur Short Film and Best Argentine Short Film. It also received the Audience Award at Kinoforum (São Paulo) and screened at more than twenty-five festivals worldwide, including the International Competition of the 47th Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. He is currently developing two features, El der mío and The Grown Ups.
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